Charlie Bowdre

Charles Bowdre (1848-23 December 1880) was an American outlaw who was affiliated with Billy the Kid's gang.

Biography
Charles Bowdre was born in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1848, and the family moved to Mississippi when he was three. He became an adept farmer from working with his father, but he later abandoned the family farm to become a wanderer and arrived in Lincoln County, New Mexico in 1874. He befriended Doc Scurlock, and the two of them briefly ran a cheese factory on the Gila River before entering the employ of cattleman John Tunstall. With the outbreak of the Lincoln County War, Bowdre joined the Lincoln County Regulators and took part in most of the battles of the war, including the Battle of Lincoln. After the war, he became a cowboy and married Manuela Herrera, a Mexican woman. In 1880, a few weeks after getting married, he joined Billy the Kid's gang in attempting to ambush Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner. The gang was holed up in a rock house at Stinking Springs, and, as Bowdre left the house to feed the horses, he was riddled with rifle slugs from Garrett's men and killed.